February 2017

Students, Faculty, Staff, and interested members of the community:
The Library’s Post-Tenure Review Committee is seeking your input to assist in the evaluation of tenured Librarian Jeremy Shellhase.
If you have experience working with Jeremy, we invite you to share your feedback with the Committee.
You may contact us in one of two ways:

The 19th Annual International Latino Film Festival will be held February 28 through March 2 at the Minor Theatre in Arcata from 6pm to 10:20pm.
This long standing community event is the collaboration of College of the Redwoods Humanities Department and HSU's World Languages and Cultures Department. Students and the general public are invited to view three outstanding films relating to the theme "Immigration to the United States": WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL?, DREAM: AN AMERICAN STORY, and MADE IN L.A. All films will be shown in Spanish and English with English subtitles. The festival is free to students enrolled in SPAN/HIST/ES 396 and SPAN 99A courses. Due to limited space this year, seating is limited. A limited number of tickets will be available to community members. This event is co-sponsored by HSU's Department of History, Department of CRGS, and the Library.

Email the Committee Chair at sarahfay@humboldt.edu. Deadline 3pm, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. (please include “Feedback on [Librarian Name] in the subject line.)

Visit Library Room 107 (Next to the Library Administration Office), from 2:30-4 P.M. Tuesday, February 28, 2017. to meet with a representative of the Committee. Note: Student input must be in writing.
Thank you.

Join us at noon on Monday, March 6 in the Fishbowl to hear poet Raina J. León.
Raina J. León, member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book, Boogeyman Dawn (2013, Salmon Poetry), was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book, sombra: dis(locate), was published in 2016. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Montana Artists Refuge, the Macdowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latin@ arts. She is an Associate Professor of Education at Saint Mary’s College of California. This reading is co-sponsored by CRGS and the Library.

This FREE annual event is open to campus and community members alike. Sponsored by the Academic and Career Advising Center, Center for International Programs, the College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, the College of eLearning and Extended Education, the International Advisory Committee, Library, the Multicultural Center, and the Global Connections Club, this week offers a variety of fun and interesting events:

Keynote speaker, featured lectures and presentations

Panel discussions on current events and global topics

Workshops on studying, working and living abroad

Food, fun and more from around the world
A unit of credit is available for attending this event. Please see the Participate section for more information.

Do you know about the Learning Center and all the help you can get from them?

The Science Tutoring Lab is now located on the Library First Floor (in addition to the times the lab is held in the Mad River Room of the Jolly Giant Commons.) We have expanded hours and more subjects offered!

The Writing Studio, also located on the first floor of the library, offers students one-on-one consultations. Appointments are encouraged but there are limited walk-in times also available. Students can now go online to self-schedule their appointments!

The Math Tutoring Lab offers drop-in assistance for more than a dozen math & stats courses.

The Learning Center continues to offer Group Tutoring to students at no-charge for more than 50 courses. Students can pick up applications for group tutoring at the reception desk, LIB 56.

For students needing individual assistance, tutors are available from 10-5 M-F in the Learning Lab, located in the lower level of the Library, LIB 55. Many courses are offered - appointments are on a first-come/first-serve basis.
For more information about all our services, visit: humboldt.edu/learning

On February 3, you have an opportunity to help ensure that the WASC Self-Study Report is an accurate reflection of Humboldt State University's student learning and success progress and challenges. This will be the final opportunity to provide feedback on the Self-Study report before the WASC Steering and Self-Study Committee begins finalizing it for submission to WASC this July. You can also provide feedback and read the report on the WASC website at wasc.humboldt.edu.
At this town hall, we will provide an overview on progress and responses to previous feedback, and then we will hold a round table for feedback to each chapter group. Your input is very valuable.
Please join us for all, or part, of this important meeting in the Library’s Authors Hall (2nd floor) on February 3, 9:00-11:00 a.m.